Barry Barish Quotes

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

When you're a little girl, living your dreams, even tiny little stages in someone's backyard are amazing.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.